About

Ayan Acharya is a highly accomplished Senior Software Engineer with over 8 years of relevant experience in the field. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was associated with the Intelligent Data Exploration and Analysis Laboratory (IDEAL) and the Machine Learning Research Group. Ayan's research expertise lies in developing generative models and efficient inference algorithms for solving transfer learning problems prevalent in healthcare, text document analysis, social network study, recommender systems, and object recognition from images. Ayan's research has been cited nearly 500 times and he has published extensively in leading journals in machine learning and artificial intelligence. He has also served as a reviewer for many of these journals and has been on the program committee of many top-tier machine learning conferences. Prior to his current role at LinkedIn, Ayan has worked at companies like eBay Research Lab, Qualcomm Inc, and Yahoo! Research. He has also served as a Senior Data Scientist at Netflix and as a Machine Learning Research Engineer at CognitiveScale. Ayan's education history includes a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. His tech stack includes Software Engineering, Research Scientist, ML, and Data Scientist. Overall, Ayan is a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer with a strong background in machine learning and artificial intelligence. He has a proven track record of developing innovative solutions to complex problems and is a valuable asset to any team.